Recent content by jamie1992

Thanks for the info, Tivù. One last question: In addition to my DiSEqC 1.3 digital receiver, I have an analogue fixed-dish-only receiver which shares the same dish via a manual LNB switch. I figured I could position the dish using the digital receiver, and then switch over to the analogue...

When the power consumption figures for a DiSEqC dish motor are quoted, does these figures include the power drawn by the LNB itself? eg. A Fortec Star HH42 is quoted as drawing: 50mA (Standby Mode) 200mA(Normal) 350mA (Max.) But a typical LNB can draw 120mA - leading to a possible total...

Legend has it that, since the late 1990s, their Nagravision scrambling system used on analogue has been software-decodeable. I'm interested in testing this, purely for educational reasons - if anyone knows of any suitable software, please let me know :)

3 out of my 4 analogue satellite boxes (they're all quite old) have developed a strange fault whereby a horizontal band occupying approx the top 3rd of the picture has a 25Hz "flickering" effect when viewed on a CRT screen (it's totally not noticeable on an LCD screen). The 4th (and newest)...

There are no analogue receivers with text buttons, so it must have been a digital one. :p Eurosport's standard teletext service can be viewed with an analogue receiver by pressing the 'text' button on the TV remote control.

umm... teletext is decoded in the TV, not the satellite receiver!? Any analogue receiver will pass the signals through.

I managed to work out the basics by myself. I will assume that you have a dish pointing at Astra 19.2E, with a single "Universal" type LNB, and no Diseqc switch - tell me if this is not correct(!) As you probably know, the receiver comes pre-tuned for channels on 19.2E - presets are listed in...

I haven't got my monobloc LNB yet, so I haven't been able to test the Disecq functionality, but I'm able to store toneburst modes just by pressing the recessed 'mem' button on the remote control using a ballpoint pen. Ironically, analogue satellite sound can be amazing too - it uses a dual FM...

I bought one of those metronic receivers - they are good, but as I mentioned in an other thread, the picture is very slightly soft. Also, the pseudo-panda audio de-emphsis isn't wonderful (7 out of 10) and it can only tune to 5.80, 6.60, 7.02 and 7.20 audio subcarriers, so no radio! I was...

Depending on how old the dish is, it might already have one.

I bought one of these last week. I'm pleased with it overall. The only issues I have are - a very slightly soft picture (but still much nicer than dvb!) - no tunable audio, and 6.50 is not included as a preset - a software bug where, if you disable its "pseudo-panda" audio de-emphasis, or tune...

Which model and where from?? Analogue satellite is always slightly grainy, even when there aren't any sparklies. But the lack of MPEG artefacts on the German channels makes up for this :) Last time I saw the French analogue channels, however, the picture was generally poor - a combination of...

Thanks for that :) I'll replace them at the weekend. I noticed that page also includes an "LNB power off in standby" mod - has anyone tried this? At the moment, my receiver sends power to the LNB all the time and, while in standby, it tunes itself to the old Sky1 analogue frequency (but the...

Do you know which capacitor(s) it's most likely to be? Or should I just replace all of them? To answer Topper's idea, I totally wouldn't trust my electronics teacher with anything! :) I do know how to solder - I just need to find out which component... thanks, jamie.

Hi guys, I have a Pace MSS300 that whistles when I turn it on. The box does work, but there's a banding effect on the picture. The whistle eventually disappears when the box warms up, and the banding goes too. I opened it up and found that the whistle is coming from the transformer - do I need...